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more robust adaptive strategies that exploit knowledge management tools to model, under conditions of uncertainty, the real … knowledge infrastructure that enables agile organisations to cope successfully with chronic uncertainty.  …
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As large organisations grow and evolve, they face the challenge of accommodating change in a manner that contains costs while strengthening the firm’s competitive position in the marketplace. Invariably, not only initial capital and long‐term operating costs, but the effect of the real...
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‐making techniques in that it explicitly accounts for uncertainty and for the ability of managers to make a rational future decision … (between renting and renovating). The model considers three sources of uncertainty: the market price of rent for office space …
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uncertainty and decision-making. Design/methodology/approach The author uses textual case studies to examine uncertainty and … approaches to uncertainty are often systems oriented; cognitive approaches are often user-oriented; collectivist approaches are … specific research topic has yet to be conducted. Each paradigm uniquely shapes the ways in which uncertainty and decision …
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Claims that, for many types of product, quality can be uncertain even after purchase and use, especially in services industries. Asks, if consumers cannot “learn” about the quality of a firm’s products, then what criteria will consumers use to judge product quality? Aims to develop a...
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Proposes that the role of traceability in manufacturing systems is to enable the history of events to be followed and compared with scheduled plans and predefined goals. Tracing techniques can be used to detect system status (status tracing), analyse system performance (performance tracing) and...
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, complex projects are characterized by incomplete knowledge. The challenge of dealing with knowledge uncertainty in complex … projects, where little learning is anticipated, by including complex projects with knowledge uncertainty requiring continuous …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe phenomenological approaches to studying entrepreneurs and their behaviors. The goal is to illustrate how phenomenology can provide a complement especially to the cognitive and discursive approaches that are common in the field today....
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain the African socio-economic development and policy design problems using the new institutional economics methodology. The paper emphasizes the importance of carefully considering the policy environment setting before changing the rules of the...
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to propose a confidence score for reporting uncertainty to the end user of a valuation report. Design …/methodology/approach Literature was reviewed on the concepts of risk and uncertainty, rationality and several systems thinking domains. Findings The … conditions of certainty and uncertainty. The argument followed in this paper is that it is necessary to contextualise the …
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